Job Description:

• 1) Tends baking oven that hardens and strengthens green sand cores used in casting metal: Loads cores on racks, trays, or carts, and pushes them into oven.

• 2) Lights gas- or oil-fired furnace and turns valves to obtain specified temperature; or sets thermostat and closes switch to heat element in electric furnace.

• 3) Closes oven door and allows cores to bake for specified time.

• 4) Opens oven door and removes cores.

• 5) May adjust baffle plates that direct flow of heat in oven.